Quantitative sustainability assessment of solid waste management in Sanaa Yemen: challenges and improvement measures

Imran Ahmad, . and Anas Al-Dailami, . and Norhayati Abdullah, . Quantitative sustainability assessment of solid waste management in Sanaa Yemen: challenges and improvement measures. pp. 108-121. ISSN 2672-7226

Solid waste management is a vital area that needs to be addressed as it leads to a sustainable environment and welfare of the public. Unfortunately in developing nations improper solid waste management leads to the pollution of the environment and this affects peoples health. The challenges and the improvement measures for solid waste vary for each country depending on various factors like topography demography and peoples awareness. This study is based on the quantitative sustainability assessment of solid waste management in Sanaa Yemen. The questionnaire survey has gone through a pilot study for a reliability test with 17 respondents. After the pilot study the questionnaire survey was distributed randomly to the people living in Sanaa City. This study involved 106 respondents in total. The purpose of the pilot study was to check the questionnaires reliability based on the Cronbachs Alpha value for both key challenges and the improvement measures of solid waste management. The Cronbachs Alpha value estimates of key challenges and improvement measures are 0.924 and 0.876 respectively. This study found that the key challenges of sustainable solid waste management (SSWM) in Sanaa City are lack of awareness and glitch in recycling as the most critical aspects. Consequently for this reason it leads to a lack of encouragement for recycling with the valuation of the mean being 4.10. Hence effective and efficient improvement measures are to be practised in overcoming these issues. This paper incorporates the challenges and the improvement measures which can be implemented to harmonise and sustain the environment and public welfare.

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Abstract

Solid waste management is a vital area that needs to be addressed as it leads to a sustainable environment and welfare of the public. Unfortunately in developing nations improper solid waste management leads to the pollution of the environment and this affects peoples health. The challenges and the improvement measures for solid waste vary for each country depending on various factors like topography demography and peoples awareness. This study is based on the quantitative sustainability assessment of solid waste management in Sanaa Yemen. The questionnaire survey has gone through a pilot study for a reliability test with 17 respondents. After the pilot study the questionnaire survey was distributed randomly to the people living in Sanaa City. This study involved 106 respondents in total. The purpose of the pilot study was to check the questionnaires reliability based on the Cronbachs Alpha value for both key challenges and the improvement measures of solid waste management. The Cronbachs Alpha value estimates of key challenges and improvement measures are 0.924 and 0.876 respectively. This study found that the key challenges of sustainable solid waste management (SSWM) in Sanaa City are lack of awareness and glitch in recycling as the most critical aspects. Consequently for this reason it leads to a lack of encouragement for recycling with the valuation of the mean being 4.10. Hence effective and efficient improvement measures are to be practised in overcoming these issues. This paper incorporates the challenges and the improvement measures which can be implemented to harmonise and sustain the environment and public welfare.

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Item Type:	Article
AGROVOC Term:	Solid wastes
AGROVOC Term:	Waste disposal
AGROVOC Term:	Recycling
AGROVOC Term:	Waste reduction
AGROVOC Term:	Urban wastes
AGROVOC Term:	Waste treatment
AGROVOC Term:	Municipal wastes
AGROVOC Term:	Questionnaires
AGROVOC Term:	Data analysis
AGROVOC Term:	Environmental impact
Depositing User:	Mr. AFANDI ABDUL MALEK
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 00:55
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/10328

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